already added a version but not as a service. it can be desactivated using configuration factory offline mode or a dedicated system property. The downloadable url and check url are configurable through system properties.
I use maven (repo1) to check the latest version. - Romain 2012/2/1 David Blevins <[email protected]> > > On Feb 1, 2012, at 7:51 AM, Romain Manni-Bucau wrote: > > > i would like to see it activated by default. > > > > a little timeout (3s?) > > > > a thread ran in the configuration factory > > and the result get (through a future) in the assembler (to avoid to > wait)? > > If we did have it on by default, should definitely something really easy > to shut off. > > This could easily be a ServerService with a file that extracts to > conf/updates.properties. Some of the config params could be the URL we > check for updates and the frequency we check. > > > -David > > > 2012/2/1 David Blevins <[email protected]> > > > >> This sounds like a great feature. > >> > >> My gut instinct is that maybe it should be disabled by default and > >> something we encourage people to enable. > >> > >> What do others think? > >> > >> > >> -David > >> > >> On Feb 1, 2012, at 6:36 AM, Jean-Louis MONTEIRO wrote: > >> > >>> +1 > >>> Of course if that is one of my idea. > >>> Just to argue a bit. > >>> > >>> With Apache TomEE (it was also the case before), a lot of companies or > >>> people are using OpenEJB/TomEE in production. > >>> > >>> It would be great to have kinda Apache TomEE server, we can use to > >> publish > >>> important releases or security/bugfixes. > >>> > >>> During startup and if the network is available, just ping our central > >>> server and check whereas there is an important update available. > >>> > >>> If yes, just send a message in logs or an email to the administrator to > >>> inform him about new important updates. > >>> We could imagine enhencing our current webapp installer to ask for > >>> administrator information such as email, smtp server or so. > >>> > >>> That was my initial thought. > >>> > >>> Jean-Louis > >>> > >>> > >>> 2012/2/1 Romain Manni-Bucau <[email protected]> > >>> > >>>> An idea from JL: > >>>> > >>>> should we do sthg like the update checker of ehcache? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >> > http://grepcode.com/file/repo1.maven.org/maven2/net.sf.ehcache/ehcache-core/2.4.0/net/sf/ehcache/util/UpdateChecker.java > >>>> > >>>> - Romain > >>>> > >> > >> > >
